Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural strategy that helps achieve tighter Business-IT alignment by taking a three-dimensional perspective of the enterprise - Technology, People and Processes. It uses standards-based interfaces to facilitate need-based access to IT resources spread over an enterprise network. SOA instills agility, a crucial quality for sustained business competitiveness, into enterprises by helping create flexible business processes and providing practical and cost-effective means of integration.

Oceansoft's SOA services will help organizations achieve this alignment with clearly defined accountability. Our services help organizations build on their existing IT investments to achieve process standardization and improve process efficiency.

• SOA Service Offerings
  • Architecture Definition
  • Define service business architecture
  • Identify and define the shared business services and technology stack
  • Define services with appropriate specifications
• Assessment
  • Assess SOA maturity
  • Define an SOA assessment model and associated metrics
  • Assess SOA compliance of projects against the maturity model
  • Assess the business value delivered by SOA
• Construction
  • Modernize legacy systems
  • Build services
  • Test and migrate SOA-based systems
  • Engineer systems for performance
• Governance
  • Assess and define an SOA governance model
  • Align SOA with the enterprise architecture vision and define a funding model
  • Define standards, principles, processes, and policies
• Initiation & Strategy Formulation
  • Enhance SOA awareness within the organization
  • Create a vision and business case to get buy-in from all stakeholders
  • Define a reference architecture for SOA adoption
• Product/Vendor Evaluation and Adoption
  • Requirements & criteria definition
  • Evaluation
  • Build proofs of concept
• Establishing SOA Competency Center
  • Develop strategy
  • Program management
  • Infrastructure evaluation
  • Define governance and conduct reviews
  • Develop solutions & framework
  • Knowledge management
  • Solution & framework support